The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
$28.48
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
23 April 2014
Summary
Marquez Day - A celebration of one of the world’s most loved writers, available in ebook for the first time.
‘On February 22 we were told that we would be returning to Colombia.’
In 1955, eight crew members of Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were swept overboard. Velasco alone survived, drifting on a raft for ten days without food or water. Marquez retells the survivor’s amazing tale, from his loneliness and thirst, to his determination to survive.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241968604 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241968607 |
| Author: | Gabriel García Márquez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 23 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 96g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Marquez 2014 |
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The story of Velasco on his raft, his battle with sharks over a succulent fish, his hallucinations, his capture of a seagull which he was unable to eat, his subsequent droll rescue, has all the grip of archetypal myth. Reads like an epic. * The Independent *
About The Author
Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was a short-story writer, novelist, journalist and a screenwriter from Colombia. He was a reporter for a Colombian newspaper, El Espectador, and also a foreign correspondent stationed in New York, Rome, Paris and Barcelona. Marquez is the author of numerous popular novels and short stories. He is well known for his unique literary style known as magical realism, in which he describes reality through magical events and elements. His most popular novels include Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.
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